U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Bradley R. Smith, 24, of Troy, Illinois, assigned to the 10th Air Support Operations Squadron, based in Fort Riley, Kansas, was killed on January 3, 2010, by an improvised explosive device in Zhari district, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. He is survived by his wife Tiffany, daughter Chloe, parents Gary and Paula, and brother Ryan.

39 Responses to "Tuesday 110823"

For the sake of the bet, I won't post my time--i'll just say that I scaled to 1.5pd swings and ball slams...and finished. Of course, that's a very different workout from PU and burpees. But I'm prepared to make up the difference with a little 1200m run.

DNF, 9 rounds Rx'd. DNF's suck, but I have to admit that I'm somewhat surprised (and pleased) that I made it as far as I did. Pullups were unbroken till round 5, then it was either 5/5 or 6/4. Burpees were unbroken, but slow, with a few stepdowns mixed in. Nice work 6am!

Pullups felt awesome!! I broke up in sets of 5 through first 4 rounds then each round after I did 5 then either 3/2 or even 3/1/1 or 2/1/1/1. I got right back on the bar every time I came off. I didn't pause/rest on burpees and the sprints were more of a fast jog, but I kept moving. I think my pace was pretty consistent throughout which I think is key on this one.

finished 10 rounds with 4 negs...fatigued by round 8 to where i couldn't quite hold the neutral above the bar before starting the negs..reduced to a slow jog after round 5.. working towards being able do the PU as well as sprint all ten. tough one in this heat but a good one!

I wouldn't recommend doing this with ANY food in your stomach. The last 3 rounds of burpees and smashing your stomach on the floor really made me want to get sick. Bad. At it had been 2 hours since I ate. Maybe it was to workout, maybe not. No fun trying to keep that down.

Crazy good job to Nick and Pat and Hinkle and JonD and everyone else who somehow managed to finish.

29:53, phew, just barely made it. I did 2-3 kips, and 2 negatives instead of pull-ups. One of these days I'll breeze through 10 hopefully butterfly style. There are some killer athletes in the noon class and seeing them do the pull-ups with ease is inspiring!

My goal was to keep moving and for the most part I did. I did my best to get as high as I could on my kipping pull-ups/attempts, they are getting better every day! It is so fun to do things you never thought was possible.

Yes, it was hot, but damn I love the heat! Getting a good sweat in makes my day.

I am still very happy with this time because this WOD was brutal. I honestly almost quit after the 5th round. Kudos to everyone who came in today and gave this WOD everything they had. Shows a lot of heart.

I am not familiar with the blogger term #justsayin. Just saying what? Is this a re-buttal to solidify the fact that I am a potential time shaver?

I can't think of one person who @ some point in time has miscounted, embellished, and or failed to correctly complete full range of motion of reps or time, including you.

I guess I am slightly irritated by this comment because not 1 hour before it was posted I was in your office talking to you.

I am all for constructive criticism, but believe there is a time and a place for this. In class calling no rep is one thing, but posting on a public forum that you "heard" and didn't witness is entirely another.

I'm #justsayin we are all here to push each other, have fun, and not put people on blast (jersey shore terminology).

DNF - 5 burpees shy of 9 rounds, scaled with frackin' &#**@%!$ ring-rows instead of pull-ups or negatives or whatever it is that the cool people do. AAAHHH!!! Really wanted to be mad about this, but was distracted by the fact that I really wanted to hurl.

Can't we all just be friends!! Last time I checked this blog is for posting our results, as well as having a bit of fun at each others expense. Stuff happens but it is all good in the end....I am just saying........(:

Good Times had by all!!!

I was not in the throw down since I forgot to post but at 25:18 I will do the 1200 meters, as my father would say...to build character!

I was just happy to finish - lots of sweat, quitter-thoughts, and more than a little pants-peeing. Plus one restroom run. This was really tough for me. Had 6 or so rds unbroken on pullups, and my last round of burpees might have been my fastest. Small victories.

Only problem is, I don't know Pat's time! So I don't know if I owe a run or not.

In any case, awesome work, 6:30 class. The energy was great, and Egan and the Tovars left us all in the dust. Congrats to Danielle for cranking out the last round of burpees in time!

Hira, it funny you say that....I have been doing some of the CFO wods in my hospital gym as well. Either during my lunch hour/half hour if I even get one or if we have an hour or two in between cases. Next week I'm going to start doing one of the "girls" 5-6 days a week (that sounds kinda bad, Ha) to help say in "crossfit shape" for when I return...Karen, Nancy, Jackie, Annie, Barbara, Helen, and Fran. I will have to modify a bit with equipment on some. I miss CFO as well. I will see ya all for FGB!! Can't wait!!

27:22 on this one. I took Zach R's advice and thank God I did. barely jogged to the curb and back but did the pullups, burpees and rest unbroken. Thanks again Zach for the help on this one. If you hadn't spoke up I would have been sprinting to the curb and back everytime and resting in the middle of the burpees.

That was the biggest 5:30 class i have ever seen. Must have been 25-30 people in there. I love it. Thoughts on that. I know its a long WOD and a good workout but why doesn't that same attendance show up for deadlift, or overhead squat days?

I don't think I have pushed myself that hard in a long time. I made a decision after round 5 that I was going to try and maintain the cushion I had built and try and finish under 20 mins. Not sure what got into me but I was able to maintain pace.

What's funny is the whole time I was holding a pace that I thought would put me between 19:30 and 19:40 never taking into consideration there was no 30 sec rest after round 10. Silly me I never realized until I called time! Maybe I could have backed off a bit and kept my head from feeling like it was going to explode from overheating.

Tough stuff today by everyone... especially bangin this out in the heat!

that wod SUCKED. I felt awful all night and have never been happier that my sand volleyball games were canceled. I could barely move, let alone try and play somewhat competitively. (insert excuse here) so I only did 5 pullups/rd. I still didn't finish until 29:01 and felt like I was going to die/hurl/pass the f out. That HUGE 5:30 class was awesome! It is so much fun to work out with that large of a group all suffering through the same thing. Great work, yall!